Hegel on Anti-Vaxxers and Making Peace with the Law

<p>Recently, the German Parliament debated the question whether to mandate general inoculation. The supreme irony of this debate is that the minister of health invoked Hegel to argue in favour of a mandate. The irony does not lie in Hegel’s stance regarding mandatory vaccination – which he fav...

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Main Author: Nico Roman Weber
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Published: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
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description <p>Recently, the German Parliament debated the question whether to mandate general inoculation. The supreme irony of this debate is that the minister of health invoked Hegel to argue in favour of a mandate. The irony does not lie in Hegel’s stance regarding mandatory vaccination – which he favoured much more explicitly than Lauterbach’s quotation suggested – but in the role that this government is attributing to law and politics. </p>
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spelling doaj.art-89046e4cc8fd44929dc3a1388192e1f62022-12-22T02:50:20ZdeuMax Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbHVerfassungsblog2366-70442366-7044Hegel on Anti-Vaxxers and Making Peace with the LawNico Roman Weber<p>Recently, the German Parliament debated the question whether to mandate general inoculation. The supreme irony of this debate is that the minister of health invoked Hegel to argue in favour of a mandate. The irony does not lie in Hegel’s stance regarding mandatory vaccination – which he favoured much more explicitly than Lauterbach’s quotation suggested – but in the role that this government is attributing to law and politics. </p> https://verfassungsblog.de/hegel-on-anti-vaxxers-and-making-peace-with-the-law/
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